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The engines of both are the same. But, yes, I think the Ion is really worth it. Yes, you'll miss out on the reverb and delay effects but you get a MIDI controller with high-res endless rotaries (the knobs on the Ion and Micron don't have a maximum or minimum which means the values never "jump"). The Micron's more fit for stage use where a boatload of controllers is not that necessary but those you need for expression are there. Come to think of it, you could also try to find an AN1x for that money. Mine just returned yesterday. Joy! . See, thing is; Britain's big. Germany's big. Moving stuff from A to B as long as it's in the UK costs the same (right?). This means a second-hand market with fierce competition, which puts prices at more realistic levels compared to shops who essentially have a monopoly on second-hand synthesizers in your vicinity. The Netherlands aren't that big so a lot of people here do their shopping in Germany; for both new and eBay stuff. Also, some search engines can't handle stuff like ESQ1 and ESQ-1; try both for maximum effect .

Well, the "B" is the mkII, new presets, mic input on top, that's pretty much it. Eh, yes it has those. As I said, the MicroKorg was derived from the original MS2000; it's got everything the MS2000 has minus the stepsequencer. That's because it's a very sparse "look wut we got here" manual . http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ENSONIQ-ESQ1_W0QQitemZ7385264072QQcategoryZ20080QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem There you go . Also, check out the Sound On Sound classified ads.

Maybe. Maybe. No. A Roland JX3P over the 106. A Roland JX8P because it's even more 80's than the 106 or the 3P. You will have to sacrifice ease of programming though. MS2000 via ebay.co.uk. It's the MicroKorg but in a bigger package. Yes and no. The MicroKorg has a vocoder you can use directly. It's more accessible. You can hook up the mike, switch immediately to vocoder presets, and you can do a trick called Formant Freeze (say "UAAAH" and you can play all the "UAAAH"s you want on the keyboard - almost like a sampler. The Micron would like you first to pick the vocoder preset and then it wants you to hook up a decent microphone. It may seem not that much of a difference, but it is . The Micron's vocoder is better though. The MicroKorg has so-called DWGS waves - digital, sampled waveforms instead of the "calculated" waveforms. The Micron does not have these. However, the Micron does have a third oscillator and tons of modulation possibilities the MicroKorg lacks, so programming can make up for these. The Micron has more voices. This makes playing chords and bass easier - in fact, the idea behind the Micron is that you use split and layered voices to combine rhythm, bass, chords and lead at once. The MicroKorg is more of a solo synth - one part, and then use multitracking for the next. Then there's the character of the sound. Korg always was a master in making "polished" sounds. The Micron does not have this advantage and a lot of people judge a synth by its presets. However, the MK is a first-generation VA, which means that the Micron is able to sound "more analog". It depends if this actually counts for you. It could be that the Korg is initially really nice but at the end not enough rewarding, while the Micron has the opposite . Why do I advise against the 106? I've owned every Juno. The JX8P is nicer and the 106 is hyped and not all that spectacular. Of all the Junos the 60 is the best, but it's not MIDI and rather bulky. Also, 240 quid is indeed steep (thanks to the hype). The ESQ is a really good suggestion because the thing is powerful and does the wavetable stuff, too. It lacks onboard effects though. It's got a big display and it's userfriendly. An SQ-80 is the same but better. Check out http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/ds_sq80.html

Don't leave the Caps Lock key on while typing titles . Also, a topic title like "HELP ME" is not useful; tell us what you want to know about and what you are looking for, then you'll have more people caring. The rest was already handled by sgx . Also, to elaborate on your other (closed) topic: Simple questions are simple because: - correctly using Google or whatever search engine you use would already reveal the answer rather fast. - correctly using this site's search function would already reveal the answer rather fast - what you ask is already covered in the product manual (this is what a lot of people seem to ignore for some reason) - what you ask is already covered in the sticky threads on the top of the forum. This sounds like a 6-year old looking up to Superman and musing if they too could fly some day . "How do I become a remixer" is a very simple and complex question at the same time. It can not be answered in one forum post, or with a dozen stickies - because people keep asking it! All you have to do to become a remixer is take a song, any song, and give your own interpretation to it. All you have to do to submit something to OC Remix is to take a song from a (usually older) video game, give your own interpretation to it, and then submit it. From that moment on it's not in your hands anymore; or better, it is, because depending on what you did you pass the test or not. It's just like an exam; prepare well and you'll receive a good grade. Don't do any effort and you'll flunk. Look, everyone started at a certain spot here. Depending on their choices and actions they got further (or stuck in the same place). Nobody can make those choices for you. And this is a simple question, because the site's owners and moderators try to do everything in their power to make it easy to find. This is just as sensible as asking whether you should take a Mercedes or a BMW to travel from A to B. The gas and brake pedals are in the same place, but some things looks differently and each side has their own fans. What doesn't get you from A to B is just talking about how your BMW is much nicer than my Mercedes. So, open that door, put your seatbelts on, and let's see how you drive.

If it's not a piccolo, it could be just a simple sinewave... which you can make with pretty much every synthesizer or plugin out there. Is the melody A-G-C-E-F-E-A-C#-D-C-F-A-C-B ?

Depends on the quality of the teacher, really. Asking if a course is good without any details about payment, staff, or whatever is rather pointless. If you don't have ProTools or don't plan to buy it it doesn't really make sense anyway.

Then why do you make an attempt to compare anyway? Vanilla does not somehow negate chocolate. It's very simple. You can't make a statement like that without at least a bit of a nuance. Guitars are designed to be held in your hands. They are designed with your hands doing 2 distinct things - plucking or pressure. All semitones are not adjacent like a piano; it depends on the position of the string. Furthermore, the guitar is a string instrument but derives its sound from plucking or strumming (2 distinct methods of excitation), while a piano only offers you hammers. In terms of expressiveness neither rules above the other, albeit that the guitar offers some possibilities that a piano doesn't - vibrato, different methods of excitation, harmonics. A guitar allows the player to move freely while a piano restricts it. Playing a 7-note chord on a piano (which you can't do on a 6-string guitar) has nothing to do with expressiveness. Being able to strum or pick which changes the sound does. Sustaining notes while playing more of them without altering or cutting off the previous ones has nothing to do with expressiveness - bending the strings so you get a smooth pitch drop or rise has. I still don't get the meaning behind the actual question; then again, I rarely understand the gist of most of your questions.

Retro color scheme, 303-like knobs, and sidepanels. The original JP is kind of extruded and this one looks like it's properly done from the bottom. Street price : $595 according to the guy who demo'd it. It is. The Micron's nice too but has less in terms of knobs and no USB.

Screw you. It's gorgeous. It's a Fantom Xa in a smaller package. It's not a rehashed D at all. The Juno D was a rebranded RS-50 (compare the pictures, only difference is the color). mp3 demos: http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=RDKB&category_id=1 video: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2608 more review stuff: http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1114 You're not the only one. Street price is going to be $1699 though.

The only new Evolver is the MEK - Mono Evolver Keys.

It's got USB and computer integration built in. It makes a really nice controller. It's not going to be expensive. It's going to be simple to work with . I'd probably want to have it because there's an improved JP8080 inside and this one looks way better, too. Finally those inflated prices of the JPs will be driven down where they belong with the rest of the first-gen VAs. Also: Click the picture.

Yesss, bitches! and lol hueg xbox : http://www.rolandmusik.de/ftp/pub/fotos/SH-201.jpg (this is interesting for a lot of remixers) and loalz hueg liek ur mom (I'm going to Hell for spelling it like this) (this is also interesting for a lot of remixers) http://www.rolandmusik.de/ftp/pub/fotos/JUNO-G.jpg

Roland is up to some new things that you might like. http://www.rolandus.com/products/productlist.aspx?ParentId=72 Especially the SH-201, I mean - it looks gorgeous!

I bought this. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961470151/sr=1-8/qid=1137520935/ref=sr_1_8/002-5622418-7637640?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Apparently it's pretty good.

The biggest drawback of MIDI is that hordes of people think it even "sounds" like anything. Always blame the wavetable on your soundcard . Damn, you got that far but still snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory . The "Rich" format most likely uses an expanded set of banks on top of the GM set. Yamaha has XG, Roland has GS - both which feature a bigger selection of sounds than the good ol' GM. Sinewav: if Finale reacts like that, switch off everything that even remotely has to do with quantizing. I second Zoola's suggestion. As for "looping" - there's an option called "MIDI Local". Set it to OFF and you avoid the looping. It means MIDI messages generated by the piano itself go to the output, but not to the piano's internal sound engine.

If my guess is correct, this looks like it's specifically geared towards synchronizing audio and video. The loops are a nice bonus and simply meant as a stock library of sorts. For music production I'd rather spend the money on Logic Express or Reason, really.

(don't read if you can't appreciate humor) I don't know. Maybe it's that lost art of Internet Etiquette - first reading a forum before signing up, exploring more than just a single part of the site. Maybe it's searching for material that matches what you're looking for, reading threads 3 pages back to see if you just might've missed it. Every forum I've went to I've followed that tactic. Read. Check out the atmosphere. Look up stuff. Every chatroom I went to I've held my trap shut, first reading about 15 minutes of discussion to see if it was worth it and if any of my babbling would fit in, contribute, or make sense. An 8 year old would post in an impulsive way. That's why they're newbies, right?See, it's very simple. There's no device yet that can whack you in the face over the internet. Users don't read descriptions, don't bother to figure anything out, so this works nicely as a warning, because nobody'd ever bother to figure out something by themselves anymore otherwise. A newbie is a newbie because they behave like newbies - blundering through everything, asking obvious questions, not paying attention, not doing any effort. Evolutionary they're a dead end if it wasn't for the speed their population increases with. If a newbie gets turned off, has his face all turning red while feeling offended, that's nice. If they aren't showing any persistence I don't know if they're going to be a contribution, because there's always the chance that their work will be rejected. If they throw a fit already when they're missing a vital part of the rules, their anger must be enough to detonate small rural areas when one of their obviously awesome remixes is going to be rejected. But this is not so much a forum - it's a resource. OCRemix is a resource. You want to know about remixing? You go here. You want to know about submitting your remixes? You don't go here because there's a bunch of rules written down for that. It's very hard to make this clear. There's vast paragraphs of information all written out for everyone to see if they just would bother to explore first, ask questions later. Really, continuation of this kind of behaviour is what gets us killed when we are going to explore strange new planets. All those people who've grown up with just posting obvious questions on forums are the same ones who'll walk in the hot jungles of Omicron Persei 8 and they're going to be eaten just because they said "HELLO? ANYONE OUT THERE?" I don't know. This kind of creates a precedent on how the next newbie is going to react, which will eventually lead to questions like "How do I remix", which lead to the Dark Side. We're trying to change yours. Just tell your grandchildren to stay out of the jungles of Omicron Persei 8.

Cuál es este bullshit? And why do you resurrect topics?

How's the manual working out for you? You know, that little booklet most people toss aside to unpack the CDs and stuff. http://www.reasonstation.net/

Seeing what the generic available budget and age is and their generic cluelessness on the matter (HAY GUYS I WANT TO REMIX WHATS THE BEST SOFTWARE) they should get the best they can get for the budget. Of course not. But the basic tools you need simply start at a certain amount of money. You can make a hammer out of an end of lead pipe, some wire and a rock or you can buy the cheapest one at the store - guess which'll enable you drive down nails better. An E-mu 0404 or an Audiophile 24/96 is not professional. It's not even semi-professional. It's simply an adequate starting point and several orders of magnitude better especially for the price than most gaming soundcards that will only listen to your whims if you install alternative drivers or suffer from latencies. Making music is serious business and the costs of these things vs what they can do is so much lower than they used to be say, 10 years ago - you just can't imagine it. FL Studio is a program that some would indeed not call professional; but that's not true; it's more aimed at the fact that the majority of users are not making music professionally (e.g. for their living). Yet it's the bare bones and it enables you do to much, much more than say, Magix Music maker or Garageband, or basically any DOS tracker. Again, the basic version of it it comes for a price and offers possibilities unheard of a decade ago. Would it be elitism or snobbery or "hey, I'm not making music professionally" to direct someone to a tool that is too limited, too constraining in such a way that it discourages people from ever venturing further? Because pretty much any hobby you have will demand you to learn, to grow in skill, to educate yourself on certain matters. I personally do not like the idea of feeding people shit and keeping them in the dark. Pretty much nothing's for free. I'd rather discourage them by saying they need to invest a minimum of effort or cash in something rather than to let themselves discourage them because the stuff they have simply does not work with them or does not do what they want. Creativity, professional or not, needs a way out. If you block that way with shitty applications or shitty gear, it becomes much harder to get rid of than a mere financial barrier. Wow, that is completely out of the left field. I can imagine some of Compy's replies are a bit cut short, but Zircon - pretentious? What bizarro world were you reading posts in? Also, you forgot me. If there's anyone a pretentious jerk to anyone, it's me. Don't settle for less, do not accept substitutes, and ask for the leading brand. Yoozer. Pretentious Jerk since 1978. "Fuck you, I'm better than everyone™".

Did I already mention http://forum.studiotips.com/ and http://www.studiotips.com/ ? Anyway, that's where you need to look. There are several ways to handle this: - Do nothing This will allow you to use the room for other purposes if you ever move out. It's not ideal though. - Treat as much as you can This means setting up basstraps and damping at the critical places. This probably would be the best if you don't have a house of your own. - Go bananas (B-A-N-A-N-A-S) Which gives you a room-in-a-room and costs about $15K even if you do it yourself. The people there are very experienced with the whole science behind it, but you might end up with a room that gets a completely fixed purpose - it'll be a studio only. It costs a lot to bring it back into the old state again. Before posting there; It's not OCR at all. You are expected to do your homework as extensively as possible first. Educate yourself thoroughly on the matter, search as much as possible of what you do not understand. I'm not trying to discourage you but they take all of it very seriously so you'll have to play along. I've browsed through some of the material there and I wouldn't even feel comfortable with registering to post stuff (mainly because I'm not able to put any improvements through). Start with the basics. You want a room with a flat response and a reduced reverb time for all frequencies. The monitor speakers you have are going to stand free - on a distance of the wall. There should be treatment everywhere the sound can reflect directly; damp the first two reflections and you've lost a lot of energy already. Sound has a low-frequency and a high-frequency component; the highs can be damped with foams which disperse and diffuse. The lows need basstraps - essentially a membrane that acts as a buffer for the low-frequency waves. Rectangular corners of the room are the spots you should look at, as they cause most of the problems. Putting basstraps there would solve a lot of issues already; it means you have to do less effort on the walls themselves. There's also the issue of room "modes" - the distance between opposing walls. That is the wavelength of a certain frequency and because waves can bounce back and forth that frequency will show up as a peak. This phenomenon is essentially resonance and it should be solved with a 'tuned' bass trap; a regular one will not suppress that particular frequency. Those are the basic things I can think of... You should keep these in mind and it depends on your budget and the will of the home owner to alter the room . You can buy some really nice Auralex stuff, but if you can make it yourself like the basstraps, you'll save yourself some money, have a better performance, and you'll be able to blend it with the current looks of the room.

Just adding bits here . Passive can be divided in 2 types too - "powered", which means that there is a separate amplifier in the speaker, and "bi-amplified" which means that there is a separate amplifier for the tweeter and the mid. This is not the case. When buying monitors ("for real"), don't go below the $1000 mark. Generally, from that amount and up the differences will be much less noticeable. For passive monitors, use either the recommended amplifier or use a hi-fi component amplifier with all EQ settings to zero; you don't want it giving you a distorted image. Yes, and no. Room acoustics have a lot to do with this too, but since it's territory most remixers can't change anything about, reference monitors is where it's at. Helpful diagram: No, it's called the sweet spot .

Check your samplerates, sir. Yeah, but where's your controller and your ASIO-soundcard and your Zirconium Badge Of Honor? I got this. Mainly because Christmas here isn't for the gifts (we've got Sinterklaas for that). It's my third MIDI interface but at least I'll have my Nord Micromodular separated from the rest .

Uh... okay. I think he's correct; but only in the sense that more people visit there and that while Remixing is just a part of OCR, GS has its complete forum dedicated to it. Simply a matter of having a bigger sample population (sample as in statistics) and less mercy for "lol d00d u should use an audigy and warez ur plugins". Plus the mods can show actual experience there - most here only have a studio in name but don't rent it out or have a separate building for the business.